Hannah Arendt´s philosophical project is inextricably linked
to the possibility of thinking politics in the modern world. Her attempt at
writing “an introduction to politics” is discussed in the context of her
philosophical notebooks and her most known works. The evolution of her
thinking took her to reject the possibility of thinking politics from
philosophy, after the horrors of the extermination camps and the rise of
totalitarian regimes. Nevertheless, her reflections on Eichmann´s trial
prompted her some nuances in her position that would finally allow her to
rediscover the importance of the capacity to judge for thinking politics as
well as the decisive intervention of philosophy in building that capacity.